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diff --git a/tcl8.6/doc/Tcl.n b/tcl8.6/doc/Tcl.n deleted file mode 100644 index fc3b477..0000000 --- a/tcl8.6/doc/Tcl.n +++ /dev/null @@ -1,275 +0,0 @@ -'\" -'\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. -'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. -'\" -'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution -'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. -'\" -.TH Tcl n "8.6" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" -.so man.macros -.BS -.SH NAME -Tcl \- Tool Command Language -.SH SYNOPSIS -Summary of Tcl language syntax. -.BE -.SH DESCRIPTION -.PP -The following rules define the syntax and semantics of the Tcl language: -.IP "[1] \fBCommands.\fR" -A Tcl script is a string containing one or more commands. -Semi-colons and newlines are command separators unless quoted as -described below. -Close brackets are command terminators during command substitution -(see below) unless quoted. -.IP "[2] \fBEvaluation.\fR" -A command is evaluated in two steps. -First, the Tcl interpreter breaks the command into \fIwords\fR -and performs substitutions as described below. -These substitutions are performed in the same way for all -commands. -Secondly, the first word is used to locate a command procedure to -carry out the command, then all of the words of the command are -passed to the command procedure. -The command procedure is free to interpret each of its words -in any way it likes, such as an integer, variable name, list, -or Tcl script. -Different commands interpret their words differently. -.IP "[3] \fBWords.\fR" -Words of a command are separated by white space (except for -newlines, which are command separators). -.IP "[4] \fBDouble quotes.\fR" -If the first character of a word is double-quote -.PQ \N'34' -then the word is terminated by the next double-quote character. -If semi-colons, close brackets, or white space characters -(including newlines) appear between the quotes then they are treated -as ordinary characters and included in the word. -Command substitution, variable substitution, and backslash substitution -are performed on the characters between the quotes as described below. -The double-quotes are not retained as part of the word. -.IP "[5] \fBArgument expansion.\fR" -If a word starts with the string -.QW {*} -followed by a non-whitespace character, then the leading -.QW {*} -is removed and the rest of the word is parsed and substituted as any other -word. After substitution, the word is parsed as a list (without command or -variable substitutions; backslash substitutions are performed as is normal for -a list and individual internal words may be surrounded by either braces or -double-quote characters), and its words are added to the command being -substituted. For instance, -.QW "cmd a {*}{b [c]} d {*}{$e f {g h}}" -is equivalent to -.QW "cmd a b {[c]} d {$e} f {g h}" . -.IP "[6] \fBBraces.\fR" -If the first character of a word is an open brace -.PQ { -and rule [5] does not apply, then -the word is terminated by the matching close brace -.PQ } "" . -Braces nest within the word: for each additional open -brace there must be an additional close brace (however, -if an open brace or close brace within the word is -quoted with a backslash then it is not counted in locating the -matching close brace). -No substitutions are performed on the characters between the -braces except for backslash-newline substitutions described -below, nor do semi-colons, newlines, close brackets, -or white space receive any special interpretation. -The word will consist of exactly the characters between the -outer braces, not including the braces themselves. -.IP "[7] \fBCommand substitution.\fR" -If a word contains an open bracket -.PQ [ -then Tcl performs \fIcommand substitution\fR. -To do this it invokes the Tcl interpreter recursively to process -the characters following the open bracket as a Tcl script. -The script may contain any number of commands and must be terminated -by a close bracket -.PQ ] "" . -The result of the script (i.e. the result of its last command) is -substituted into the word in place of the brackets and all of the -characters between them. -There may be any number of command substitutions in a single word. -Command substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces. -.IP "[8] \fBVariable substitution.\fR" -If a word contains a dollar-sign -.PQ $ -followed by one of the forms -described below, then Tcl performs \fIvariable -substitution\fR: the dollar-sign and the following characters are -replaced in the word by the value of a variable. -Variable substitution may take any of the following forms: -.RS -.TP 15 -\fB$\fIname\fR -. -\fIName\fR is the name of a scalar variable; the name is a sequence -of one or more characters that are a letter, digit, underscore, -or namespace separators (two or more colons). -Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\(en\fB9\fR, -\fBA\fR\(en\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\(en\fBz\fR). -.TP 15 -\fB$\fIname\fB(\fIindex\fB)\fR -. -\fIName\fR gives the name of an array variable and \fIindex\fR gives -the name of an element within that array. -\fIName\fR must contain only letters, digits, underscores, and -namespace separators, and may be an empty string. -Letters and digits are \fIonly\fR the standard ASCII ones (\fB0\fR\(en\fB9\fR, -\fBA\fR\(en\fBZ\fR and \fBa\fR\(en\fBz\fR). -Command substitutions, variable substitutions, and backslash -substitutions are performed on the characters of \fIindex\fR. -.TP 15 -\fB${\fIname\fB}\fR -. -\fIName\fR is the name of a scalar variable or array element. It may contain -any characters whatsoever except for close braces. It indicates an array -element if \fIname\fR is in the form -.QW \fIarrayName\fB(\fIindex\fB)\fR -where \fIarrayName\fR does not contain any open parenthesis characters, -.QW \fB(\fR , -or close brace characters, -.QW \fB}\fR , -and \fIindex\fR can be any sequence of characters except for close brace -characters. No further -substitutions are performed during the parsing of \fIname\fR. -.PP -There may be any number of variable substitutions in a single word. -Variable substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces. -.PP -Note that variables may contain character sequences other than those listed -above, but in that case other mechanisms must be used to access them (e.g., -via the \fBset\fR command's single-argument form). -.RE -.IP "[9] \fBBackslash substitution.\fR" -If a backslash -.PQ \e -appears within a word then \fIbackslash substitution\fR occurs. -In all cases but those described below the backslash is dropped and -the following character is treated as an ordinary -character and included in the word. -This allows characters such as double quotes, close brackets, -and dollar signs to be included in words without triggering -special processing. -The following table lists the backslash sequences that are -handled specially, along with the value that replaces each sequence. -.RS -.TP 7 -\e\fBa\fR -Audible alert (bell) (Unicode U+000007). -.TP 7 -\e\fBb\fR -Backspace (Unicode U+000008). -.TP 7 -\e\fBf\fR -Form feed (Unicode U+00000C). -.TP 7 -\e\fBn\fR -Newline (Unicode U+00000A). -.TP 7 -\e\fBr\fR -Carriage-return (Unicode U+00000D). -.TP 7 -\e\fBt\fR -Tab (Unicode U+000009). -.TP 7 -\e\fBv\fR -Vertical tab (Unicode U+00000B). -.TP 7 -\e\fB<newline>\fIwhiteSpace\fR -. -A single space character replaces the backslash, newline, and all spaces -and tabs after the newline. This backslash sequence is unique in that it -is replaced in a separate pre-pass before the command is actually parsed. -This means that it will be replaced even when it occurs between braces, -and the resulting space will be treated as a word separator if it is not -in braces or quotes. -.TP 7 -\e\e -Backslash -.PQ \e "" . -.TP 7 -\e\fIooo\fR -. -The digits \fIooo\fR (one, two, or three of them) give a eight-bit octal -value for the Unicode character that will be inserted, in the range -\fI000\fR\(en\fI377\fR (i.e., the range U+000000\(enU+0000FF). -The parser will stop just before this range overflows, or when -the maximum of three digits is reached. The upper bits of the Unicode -character will be 0. -.TP 7 -\e\fBx\fIhh\fR -. -The hexadecimal digits \fIhh\fR (one or two of them) give an eight-bit -hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted. The upper -bits of the Unicode character will be 0 (i.e., the character will be in the -range U+000000\(enU+0000FF). -.TP 7 -\e\fBu\fIhhhh\fR -. -The hexadecimal digits \fIhhhh\fR (one, two, three, or four of them) give a -sixteen-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be -inserted. The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0 (i.e., the -character will be in the range U+000000\(enU+00FFFF). -.TP 7 -\e\fBU\fIhhhhhhhh\fR -. -The hexadecimal digits \fIhhhhhhhh\fR (one up to eight of them) give a -twenty-one-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be -inserted, in the range U+000000\(enU+10FFFF. The parser will stop just -before this range overflows, or when the maximum of eight digits -is reached. The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0. -.RS -.PP -The range U+010000\(enU+10FFFD is reserved for the future. -.RE -.PP -Backslash substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces, -except for backslash-newline as described above. -.RE -.IP "[10] \fBComments.\fR" -If a hash character -.PQ # -appears at a point where Tcl is -expecting the first character of the first word of a command, -then the hash character and the characters that follow it, up -through the next newline, are treated as a comment and ignored. -The comment character only has significance when it appears -at the beginning of a command. -.IP "[11] \fBOrder of substitution.\fR" -Each character is processed exactly once by the Tcl interpreter -as part of creating the words of a command. -For example, if variable substitution occurs then no further -substitutions are performed on the value of the variable; the -value is inserted into the word verbatim. -If command substitution occurs then the nested command is -processed entirely by the recursive call to the Tcl interpreter; -no substitutions are performed before making the recursive -call and no additional substitutions are performed on the result -of the nested script. -.RS -.PP -Substitutions take place from left to right, and each substitution is -evaluated completely before attempting to evaluate the next. Thus, a -sequence like -.PP -.CS -set y [set x 0][incr x][incr x] -.CE -.PP -will always set the variable \fIy\fR to the value, \fI012\fR. -.RE -.IP "[12] \fBSubstitution and word boundaries.\fR" -Substitutions do not affect the word boundaries of a command, -except for argument expansion as specified in rule [5]. -For example, during variable substitution the entire value of -the variable becomes part of a single word, even if the variable's -value contains spaces. -.SH KEYWORDS -backslash, command, comment, script, substitution, variable -'\" Local Variables: -'\" mode: nroff -'\" fill-column: 78 -'\" End: |